The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-19 00:00:00

aril Amor. I NPERIAL PARLIANIITT HOUSE OP LORDSLast Ever king, ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal assent was given by COMMBSiOII tO , the follow ing bills, viz.:— Consolidated Fund (£584,650) Bill. Consolidated Fund (£4,500,000) Bill. Sir John Lawrence Salary Bill. Inclosure Bill, Mutiny Bill. Marine Mutiny Bill The Royal Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and Earl St. Germans. Their lordships adjourned during pleasure. The LORD Cio.NcELLon. took his seat on the woialaaok at five o'clock. THE DANO -GERMAN WAR. Earl RUSSELL referred to the notice given by the Earl of Ellenborough that he would call the attention of their lordships to the actual state of affairs in Germany and Denmark. He had to ask the noble lord, on public grounds, to refrain from raising a discussion this evening, as he could assure his lordship that it would be most impolitic to do so at present. His lordship then laid upon the table various papers comprising further correspondence upon the subject, and announced that negotiations were still pending between the various powers. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said that under the circumstances ho would not think of proceeding with his motion. After a few words from Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE and the Earl of DESART, The subject dropped. MALT FOR ANIMALS BILL. This bill passed through committee and was reported to the house after a new clause had been added t COURT OF CHANCERY (DISPATCH OF BUSI NESS) BILL. This bill was read a second time on the motion of the Lord Chancellor. CONVEYANCES, &c., (IRELAND) BILL, This bill was also read a second time. BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY NOTES (IRELAND) BILL. This bill passed through commitiee, and was reported without amendment. AMERICA. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE referred to the case of the men found on board the Kersage, and recalled to 'their lordships' recollection the circumstances under which six men had enlisted on board of her to serve in the United States navy, and their recent trial for having committed the offence. He contrasted the decision come to by the learned judge who disposed of the case, when the prisoners had pleaded guilty, with the course pursued by a judge in United States courts in disposing of an analogous case when he sentenced the man to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 100 dole. He concluded by asking for copies of the information laid against the men, and whether the noble earl had any further explanation on the subj ect. Earl RUSSELL said he had nothing further to state on the subject. The papers relative to the matter had been submitted to Parliament ; the men had been prosecuted and Government had done everything they could to prevent a recurrence of the matter. Her Majesty's proclamation on the subject of enlisting in a foreign service had been made as public as possible. Lord CHELMSFORD suggested that copies of the de positions should be produced as well as the informations. This was agreed to, and Their Lordships adjourned until Tuesday, the sth of April, HOUSE OP COMMONS—Last Evening. The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. ROYAL ASSENT. Colonel CLIFFORD, the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, summoned the Speaker and the hon. members to the bar of the House of Lords, to hear the Royal assent given by commission to different bills. The right hon. gentleman, accompanied by most of the members, then proceeded to the House of Lords, and on his return announced that the Royal assent had been given to several bills, for which eee Lords' report. PRIVATE BUSINESS, The following bills were read a third time and passed : Aberbrothwick Harbour, Chichester and Midhurst Rail way (No. 3), and Dubin and Belfast Junction Railway. The following bills were considered and ordered for third reading:—East and West Junction Railway, Lancaster Local Board of Health, Market Harborough and East Norton Railway, Okehampton Railway, and Stockport District Water. scuTcrr MILLS. Mr. BENTINCK asked the Secretary for the Home Department, whether Scutch mills came within the defini tion of a " factory ;" whether the law officers of the Crown have given any opinion on that point; and, if so, whether that opinion supports the conclusion at which the factory inspectors have arrived on that point Sir G. GREY said that the opinion of the law officers was that these mills did not come within the definition of a factory. BRITISH COLUMBIA. Sir E. GROGAN asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Hudson's Bay Company had any ownership in the soil or any right, except that of taking wild animals, to the district of country lying between Lake Superior and British Columbia, comprising the only prairie and some of the most fertile land in British America ; and, if the company had no right, whether the said district should not be opened for s ttlement under the Crown, and thus invite the emigrants who now leave this country for the United States to settle in our own colony ? Mr. C. FORTE KITE said that the Hudson Company claimed territorial right over the district alluded to, which had been twice assented to by the law officers under two Governments. As these claims were considered valid 200 years, under these circumstances it was not right to raise an issue on them. He denied that the tide of emigration was checked by the Hudson Company, but by other obstacles which he trut ted would eventually be re moved. THE SUEZ CANAL. Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked the First Lord of the Trea sury whether the Sultan had authorised the Pacha of Eg3 pt to submit the questions at issue relative to the Suez Canal to the arbitration of the Emperor of the French ; and whether, among such questions considered to be at issue, the requirement of the supply of forced labour for the exe cution of the works of the canal was presumed to be in cluded ? Lord PALMERSTON said that all he knew on the subject was derived from the lloniteur, which announced that the Emperor, with the consent of the Facha of Egypt, had agreed to arbitrate on the matter. HOLSTEIN AND SCHLESWIG. Mr, OSBORNE asked the First Lord of the Treasury, whether her Majesty's Government had grounds for be lieving that the order of succession in Holstein and Schleswig, which was contemplated by the treaty of Lon don, would . .be consented to by the Assemblies of Estates in those Duchies ? Lord PALMERSTON said that the question would be decided by the Assemblies of Estates. The noble lord, in reply to a subsequent question, denied that the treaty of 1852 had anything to do with this subject. THE CHANCELLOR. OF THE EXCHEQUER AND MR. SHERIDAN. Sir JOHN HAY rose to move the following :—" That this hduse sees with regret that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has not considered it his duty, after the expla nation given last night, to withdraw the imputations which he has cast on the hon. member for Dudley." He said that in this case a question of privilege was involved. The right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer said last night that if he had been guilty of what was charged against him he was bound not only to apologise to the hon. member for Dudley (Mr. Sheridan), but that he was deserving the censure of the house, and on these issues he challenged the decision of hon. members. Tha SPEAKER interrupted the member on a point of order, and said that the question of privilege should be de cided before the motion was made. Lord PALMERSTON then moved that the motion of the hon. imonet should havo precedence of tho orders of the day. After an animated discussion, in which Mr. Bouvrna, Mr. ROEBUCK, and other hon. members took part, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER entered into an explanation, and said that as regarded the society in question he was prepared to adhere to his statement on the facts on which it was founded. As regarded the hon. member for Dudley he said that he had not heard the de claration he understood he had made of his not being in any way responsible for transactions of the society, and if he made that distinct declaration he (Mr. Sheridan) would be entirely :freed from any adverse presumption, and would be in the same position as if his (the Chancellor of the Exchequer's) statement had never been made. (Hear, hear.) On that declaration being made he would be only happy to supply any deficiency in his state ment in regard to the hon. member. (Hear, hear.) Mr. SHERID A.N said he had stated most distinctly las t night that he had been an auditor of the society u p to iss6, that he knew o f no thi ng censurable in the transactions of the society, and that in his official ca pan ty he was not responsible for any such t ransact i on, ' (Hear, hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said that his motion was rendered unnecess ary by the handsome explanation of hi s r i g ht hon, friend. "'he motion was then withdrawn. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was misinformed, and understood that the hon. member had been an auditor of the society. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repeated that he had been under the impresAon that the hon. mem ber had been auditor of the society in 1859, and he again apologised to the hon. member. Sir J. HA y then withdrew his motion, and the subject dropped. STATE OF RESERVOIR% On the motion of Lord PALIIERSTON that the house at its rising do adjourn until Monday, the 4th of April, Mr. FERRAND drew attention to the state of Doe•park azd other reservoirs belonging to the Bradford Corporation. The kriel, member entered into some details as to the condi tion et the several reservoirs,"and;pointed out the dangerous con , ANuences which might ensue if any part of the embank ra 'Alt were to give way ; urg i ng at t h e same t i me the great importance of appointing an inspector of all reservoirs, whether belonging to a corporation or a private company. Sir G. GREY said the hon. gentleman had taken an in convenient mode of bringing this matter under the notice of the Government. His attention had been called to the state of the Doe Park Reservoir two years ago, at which time he had sent down a person to examine and report upon the matter, and since then he had heard no complaiat of any kind. If the hon. gentleman would be g ood enough to place a statement in his hands setting forth the facts relating to the prrsent condition of those waterworks, it should be carefu:dy considered, COLLECTION OF TAXES BILL. In reply to, a question from Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER stated that, in cr,nsequ9nce of various amendments which had been suggested, it was !proposed to reprint the bill ; and then he woul'l name a distant day, probably the 15th or 20th of April, for discussing it in committee. MR. STANSFELD AND SIGNOR MAZZINI. Lord ELCHO—I wish to put a question to the noble lord at the bead of the Government, of which I have given him private notice. It is a question which follows fromthe pain ful discussion in this house arising out of the unfortunate friendship between a member of her Majesty's Government an d Signor Maszini. Ido not wish to revive that discus seen, nor to express any opinion as to the course taken by the hon. member for Halifax since the question was first brought before the house by the hon. member for Finsbury. I will not say whether or not it may have been better for the hon. member at once to have expressed his regret for what had occurred than to enter upon the defence of a man whom I believe to be incapable of being defended. But, looking dispassionately at the question, it appears to me that the hon. gentleman has been guilty of a grave indiscretion— (hear, hear)—an indiscretion amounting to a public scandal. The indiscretion of the hon. gentleman is this, that he, a member of her Majesty's Government, allowed until re cently his name to be used as a cover for the secret corre spondence of Signor Mazzini. I say that this is an indis cretion amounting to a great public scandal, affecting not only the character of the Government and this house, but also calculated to create a bad understanding and a bad feeling between this country and a friendly foreign Power. (Opposition cheers.) Such being so, it appears to me the division of last night, so far from putting the house in a better position, puts us in a worse one ; for the question, which was not a party question, was made by that division a party question. I voted in the minority, but not as a partisan. I did so as the only means which I saw present ing itself for vindicating the honour of this house and the honour of the country. (Hear, hear.) Now, any further resolutions on the matter will unquestionably be made the subject of party divisions, and a colour will be given to such discussions on this side of the house. And, speaking of this as a party question, I must say that many hon. members have expressed to me their bitter regret at the position in which they were placed last night. But, if these divisions cannot place the house right, there is a course which, if it had been taken at the outset, would have placed the house right before the country, and the country right before fo reign Powers ; and that is, if the hon. member for Halifax, when he saw the position to which his culpable indiscre tion had reduced himself, the Government, and the country, had at once tendered his resignation to the noble lord. (Opposition cheers.) Therefore the question which I wish to ask thenoblelordat the head of the Govern ment is—and I wonder that it has not been asked already— whether the hon. member for Halifax hes, at any time since this question was first brought under the notice of the house, formally tendered his resignation to the Go vernment, and whether his resignation has been refused. Since I came down to the house this evening I have been informed privately that he has done so. When I thought it desirable to ask this question I was entirely ignorant of the fact. I determined to ask the question, because last night the feeling was unanimous amongst many gentleman that, no matter what explanations the hon. member for Halifax had to offer to the house, the natural course for the hon. member would be to tender his resignation. Such was the feeling not only of gentlemen opposite, but even the friends of the hen. member expressed the same conviction. (Hear, hear.) I think therefore that the hon. gentleman and the house would be placed in a much more favourable position if the hon. gentleman took that course. (Hear, hear.) With reference to the resignation having been tendered to the Go. vernment, but not accepted, that is a matter between the house and the Government upon which I have no desire to express an opinion. Lord PALMERSTON—I cannot but regret that my hon. friend in asking this question—which ho might have done simply, without dilating on so many matters—has thought it right to revive the discussion of last night—(cheers)-- and which I certainly hoped had been then concluded. (Renewed cheering). I shall therefore abstain from follow ing the example of my noble friend and going into that ques tion again. I shall simply answer the question which ho has put to me. The hon. lord asks whether my hon. friend did, subsequently to the notice taken of this matter by the hon. member for Finsbury (Mr. Cox) tender the resignation of his office. My hon. friend immediately made a communi cation to me, through a common friend, to the effect that he placed his office entirely at the disposal of the Government —(cheers)—and that at the slightest intimation from me he would tender his formal resignation. My answer was that I.did not wish him to take that step, and if there is any re sponsibility attaching to that decision, I am perfectly ready to accept of it. (Loud cheers.) Mr. W. E. DUNCOMBE was exceedingly surprised at the conclusion of the noble lord. In his opinion it was un worthy of the G3vernment that there should sit upon the Treasury bench one who for 17 years had been the intimate friend of Mazzini—a man who had not the courage to carry out his diabolical schemes, but who, skulking under the protection of this free country, plotted and conspired against the crowned heads and the established Governments of Europe. Alderman ROSE thought it would be heard with some surprise, not only in this country, but throughout the con tinent, that the noble lord at the head of the Government had thought it right to endorse the conduct of the hon. member for Halifax. That very afternoon he had seen a letter from Paris which recounted that this discovery had created a feeling throughout France which sooner or later would cause the noble viscount deeply to regret that he had not accepted the resignation of the hon. member for Halifax. Mr. W. 1. FOSTER—I hope that a motion on this sub ject will be definitely brought before us, and that the House of Commons will decide whether the circumstance of a gentleman being the friend of Signor Mazzini renders him an improper person to become a member of the Administra tion. Ido not agree with Signor Mazzini in his views. Indeed, I disagree with almost all the views which he now holds on foreign politics, and I think he has done some harm to the cause of liberty and order. Still I think him to be a most honest and sincere man, and a devoted patriot ; and I believe that one great reason for the hostility now shown to him, and, through him, to my hon. friend the member for Halifax, is that ho has been the cause of the resurrection of Italy—(oh, oh, and cheers)—and that in times past he has kept up the flame of patriotism in that country. lam not ashamed of acknowledging my sequoia. tance with Signor Maszini, and I should be ashamed of my hon. friend the member for Halifax if, when he became a member of the Administration, he had said to Signor Maraini, " I shall have nothing more to do with you; I disown your friandahip." I admit that my hon. friend has committed a great mistake, and that he ought to have expressed his regret for what occurred. That he has done. (Cries of " No, no,'• on the Opposition benches.) But is it really the opinion of this house that what has oc curred should prevent my hon. friend from being any longer a member of that Administration of which he is such an ornament ? (Cheers.) The noble viscount at the head of the Government, with that courage and generosity which makes him so popular in this house and the country, has declared that he would not be instrumental in giving effect to the determination to drive my hon. friend from office. Well, then, I am persuaded that the house will not come to a different conclusion. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. WALSH considered that there was a very great distinction between being a friend of Mazzini for many years, and affording Mazzini facilities for carrying on a clan destine correspondence, In his opinion it was most unfor tunate that a gentleman holding a conspicuous office in the Administration should be so intimately connected with an individual who had been engaged in conspiracies against all the States of Europe. He had always entertained the greatest admiration for the character of the noble lord at the head of the Government, and he had always observed that it was one of his noblest characteristics that he never de serted a friend, no matter in how great straits he might be, and no matter how much in the noble lord's own intimate mind he knew he was making personal and political sacri fices in doing so. (Cheers.) Upon the present occasion he really thought the noble lord had Leen more actuated by this chivalrous feeling than by a deliberate approval of the conduct of the hon. member for Halifax. (Hear.) The noble lord must well know—as every member of this house must be convinced—that this unfortunate affair had been a very great blow to his administration. 3 The answer of the noble lord was not perfectly clear. He understood the noble lord to say that the hon. member for Halifax had not formally tendered his resignation, but that through a mutual friend— through a third party—he had intimated kis readiness to resign if the noble lord requested him to do so. However, circumstances have now some degree changed—the hon. member for Halifax no longer stood in the same position. A maj)rity of that house, certainly a very narrow one, had to a certain extent protected the hon. member, and, as it were, reesta blished him. Well, he would not ask the noble lord fur ther questions on the matter, but he would ask the hon. member for Halifax whether, considering the position in which he had placed the house and the Government of which he was a member—(oh, oh, and hear, hear)-3onsi r dering the position in which he had placed the country— whether it did not occur to him, as a gentleman and a man of honour, that his proper course would be frankly and dis tinctly to tender his absolute resignation to the noble loid. (Hear, hear.) Lord PALME RSTON—I desire to explain that my hon. friend, through a common friend, threw himself and his office entirely in my hands. (Cheers.) Mr, HALIBURTON, referring to the discussion of last THE SUS; LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1864. evening, said that many of the remarks which had been elicited were received with an unbecorning levity on the Ministerial side of the house, While that (the Opposition) side of the house bad ethibited upon the occasion a degree of warmth and a passion which was entirely out of place. (Hear, hear.) Still they had a great duty to perform, not only to the public of this country, but to the sovereign of France. He did not hesitate to say that there was no man whose life was of such value to Europe at large as the Em peror of the French. They were told this was an indiscre tion on the part of the hon. member for Halifax. It ap peared to him that there had been consecutive blunders. He did not think that any man possessing proper feelings ought to have gone into an Administration carrying with him the friendship of Mazzini. (" Hear, hear," from the Opposition.) Nor did he think the noble lord ought to have invited a friend of Mazzini's—not a secret friend, but one who gloried in it as being a friendship with one of the greatest philanthropists of the day—to join his Adminis tration. Lord Russell, when introducing the Conspiracy Bill into that house, spoke of him as " that assassin Mazzini," and related a story of a young man whom Mazzini sent to Italy, giving him his own dagger, and fur nishing him with money to plunge that dagger into the King of Italy. (Hear, hear.) If the hon. member for Halifax had read that speech, or heard it, it was something more than indiscretion to have friendship with a fellow like that —(laughter, and Opposition cheers)—a man noted through out Europe, and well known in this country, as the father of assassins, as the man who sent them out with the poisoned daggers. (Laughter.) For a man to proclaim a man like that as a man of fine intellect, as a noble creature, above the ordinary prejudices of the world—(laughter and cheers) — was that a mere indiscretion ? Was it an act of indiscretion to make his house a post•office for receiving all the treason able letters which were sent from different parts of the world to the great arch-agitator ? Was that an indiscretion ? It was something more than an indiscretion ; it would form in an indictment a very strong feature of evidence. Had the hon. gentleman never heard of those extracts from the let ters of Mazzini ? If he had, it was his duty to cast him off, but he had not done so. He should have explained to the noble lord, when he offered him a position in the Government owing to his splendid talents, that he was in complicity with a man who would cause him to bring discredit on the Go vernment, or he should have told Mazzini that he could not any longer cover his treasonable letters. (Laughter, and hear, hear.) It required a man to exercise a strong effort of moral courage to associate with Calcraft. (Laughter.) He would not detain the house longer upon the subject. He believed every person had made up his mind, and, he believed, the mind of the public ran all one way. (Hear.) Indeed, he might go further, and say that it was the private opinion of every member of the Government. (Laughter and cheers.) The hon. gentleman alluded briefly to the endorsing of the notes, and to the offence that had been given on the Continent; he concluded by asking the noble lord:if he would favour the house with the reasons which induced him to keep the hon. gentleman in the Government contrary to his wishes? (Hear, hear.) Mr. HENLEY—I must say the statement my bon. friend has just made has placed the matter to me, if possible, in a more disagreeable and painful position than it was be fore, because, if there was one point which rankled more than another in the feeling of the country out of doors, it was the way and the manner in which this question had been treated inside. lam one of those who think that, if either the noble viscount—who, it seems, was cognisant of the whole matter—or if the hon. member for Halifax had, when the member for Finsbury addressed this house on the first occasion, made that avowal which was now hcnestly made by him, instead of having it, as it were, dragged out of him by the protracted inquiry in this matter—if the ques tion had been frankly answered, and the hon. member had said, " It is true I gave leave for letters to be sent to my house; I am sorry for it; I was not aware how it would be used'—if that answer had been given, this matter would have stood in a very different light—(hear, hear)—because, if 1 may use the phrase, it was almost studiously kept from being acknowledged. No man could even guess, from the answer of the hon. member for Halifax or the Under-Secre tary of State, on the first nights this subject was under dis cussion—no one could have dreamt that it was perfectly plain and true that the house of the hon. gentleman the member for Halifax was at the disposal of a man who has been sufficiently designated in this house without me saying one word about him, as a cover for his correspondence. One is almost tempted to ask whether the letter bags of the Foreign Office are at the disposal of this gentleman. lam glad to see the hon. gentleman (Mr. Layard) shakes his head ; but I say this question might be asked, because both one and the other of the hon. gentlemen (Mr. Stansfeld and Mr.Layard) expressed nearly similar opinions. [Mr.LAYARD No, no.) The real truth, the real gist of the matter is this—Was this house of the hon. member for Halifax so at the disposal of Mazzini, for letters to come to him ? No one attempted to think the hon. member for Halifax was mixed up with any conspiracy for murder ; no one dreamt of that—(hear, hear)—but it was only throwing dust in the eyes of the house to deny the whole matter. Will anybody believe a man can be scot-free from imputation if he allows letters which he knows nothing about, and probably takes care to know nothing about, to pass through his house ? If the matter had been frankly owned at the first moment, and there had been no attempt at concealment, no attempt to keep anything back, I think the matter would have been in a different position. lam sorry to say the noble viscount would have stood in a much higher position, because he stems to me to have been a party to keeping it back. The noble lord has told us that this matter was brought fully to his notice, and I regret the statements made b' him and the hon. member for Halifax were not properly made. There ought to have been a disclaimer to the country and the world, and it should have been avowed that an indiscretion had been committed. The whole question wcul4 then have passed away, and we should have heard nothing more of it. If a man commits an indiscretion and frankly owns it, I be lieve there is no one in this house but who would say, " You have been a foolish fellow, and there's an end of it." (Laughter.) But if you attempt to hide it, and have not the manliness to acknowledge you have committed a fault, every one will be sure there is something behind which they have not got hold of, and that you have not told the affair properly from beginning to end. Mr. LAYARD—I do not wish to prolong this discus sion, but I have been so completely misrepresented by the right hon. gentleman and others, that I must say one word. When the right lion, baronet the member for Devonshire asked me a question that had nothing to do with Mazzini or any conspiracy, the right hon. gentleman says I did not answer whether letters were sent to the house of my hon friend or not, and that I made use of terms with respect to Mazzini the same as those used by the hon, member for Halifax. Now, I distinctly deny that anything of that kind took place. What took place was— the hon. baronet got up and asked me whether, in conse• quence of a statement by the public prosecutor in France, upon evidence which he thought justified the statement that a member of the Government had been implicated in a plot to assassinate the Emperor of the French—whether, the public prosecutor having made such a statement, her Majesty's Government had made any representation to the French Government. My answer was, that 1 thought it was not consistent with the dignity of her Majesty's Govern• ment to make any such representation, founded upon a state ment made by a public prosecutor in a court of justice in the course of a trial. That is my opinion still, and I believe it is the opinion of the country. I said nothing with regard to Nlazzini's opinions; what I said was, that the French Government had made no communication to this country, and that I was convinced the Emperor of the French, who knew this country better than most men oa the Continent, knew that the accusation was so monstrous, that he did not think fit to come forward with any representation. Major KNOX asked whether it was true that the name of the hon. member for Halifax appeared in the large majo- rity of ten last night, and whether he considered it due to the honour of this house that he should have taken part in that division F Mr. B. OSBORNE—In the few remarks of the hon. mem ber for Oxfordshire he said this was a painful subject. It is a painful subject; but somehow I have remarked, in my par liamentary experience, that there is nothing in which Par. liament so much delights— (laughter) —nothing which brings so many members to this house—as a purely personal and painful subject. (Hear.) I think my hon. friend the member for Hertfordshire, when he addressed himself with so much unction to this painful subject, could not have thought that this painful subject is assuming an aspect of painful per secution. (Hear, hear.) No two lads lately emancipated for the holidays, impaling a cockchafer, could dwell on the subject with greater glee than the hon. gentleman the mem ber for Southampton (Alderman Rose), and the noble lord the member for Haddingtonshiro (Lord Elcho) ; for the civic dignitary, the honourable alderman, on a late occasion, not satisfied with hunting Signor Mazzini through every gyration, asked the hon. member for Halifax whether it was true that Mazzini had ever lived in his house, and paid for his washing. (Much laughter.) To-night another hon. gentleman from the sister country rises and says, "Did you ♦ote in that majority ?" Why could the hon. gentleman not have voted ?—[Major Knox—lt is against the rules of the house.]—l have no sympathy whatever with the ►iews of the hon. gentleman, but I beg leave to correct a state ment made by the hon. member on the other side of the house who said the noble lord had made him an offer of a seat in the Cabinet. The hon. member only fills an humble seat in the Admiralty barge ; and what this prosecution calls for is that this clever young man shall be hunted out of that minor office in the Administration. I am reminded by the discussion last night that we have so little to do in the way of real business, that we appear to be doing nothing but de bating personal questions, and getting up with hypocritical faces and saying they are very "painful subjects." (Laugh ter, and hear, hear.) It appears to me that, next to roast ing a bishop, there is nothing so agreeable to the house as baiting a member of the Administration. (Laughter.) Now I have no particular confidence in her Majesty's Govern ment; but I should be ashamed of myself if I were to pitch upon one member, and that a humble member who has no aristocratic connections—(hear)—and who has made his position by his own abilities—and night after night bait him and use opprobrious expressions to him. I do lament the in discretion that he has committed. I know nothing of M. Mazzini. What I have heard of his views I do not much like, nor am I very anxious to meet that hon. gentleman at dinner, or in this house. (Laughter.) But lot it be recol lected that Signor Mazzini has not yet been put upon his trial; that he has to undergo a trial in Paris on these 'very transactions which we are now debating. Therefore, if we were a judicial assembly, which we are not, because we are disqualified by our passions— (laughter)—do not let us con demn a man unheard—without having the facts before us. With regard to this indiscretion of the hon. gentleman, I will ask the house in sober sadness if we are not carrying this matter too far ? We have had the question debated. Baronets have come out rather strong. We have had the member for Devonshire, and last night another came out in a melodramatic character, and 1 never saw a part played so well as the dagger and bowl performances by the hon, baronet the member for Yarmouth (Sir H. Stracey). (Laughter.) Ho not only spoke, but he looked the cha racter. (Much laughter.) We entered into the debate last night, and took a division on this question. I voted with the majority, not because I approved altogether the conduct of the hon. gentleman, but I felt bound to take his denial, and not to take a dirty advantage by wreaking revenge on a small subject, and turning it against her Majesty's Go vernment. Well, sir, the hon. gentleman on the other side —the member for some place in Cornwall—(laughter)—has quoted that respectable legal functionary, Mr. Calcraft ; why and wherefore, I can't understand. (Laughter.) If all the indiscretions of hon. gentlemen in their youth were to be visited upon them—(laughter)—how would the right hon. gentleman on the other side himself escape? I think the course we are pursuing on the present occasion is un worthy of the character of English members of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) If I were in the position of the hon. member for Halifax—and I think the position he holds is unworthy of his talents—l would at once resign. I would not consent to hold my seat there with an imputation of any sort hanging over me. lle would return, and would return in a better place. Sir, it is unworthy of us as members of Parliament, and will not be responded to by the public out of doors, to go on night after night baiting a junior lord of the Admiralty. (Cheers.) Mr. FITZGERALD said there was one sentence of the hon. gentleman's speech with which he entirely concurred, and that was with regard to the fulfilling of the duties of members of Parliament. The answer to the question of the hon, member for Haddingtonshire had somewhat altered the position of affairs; and he was willing to put aside the member for Halifax, and to agree that the house was now placed in a more serious position. The serious point which the house had now to consider was the position which the head of the Government was placed in, by sanctioning the eulogium of the hon. member on Maszini, instead of at once doing his beat to remove such an imputation from the Go vernment. Mr. NEWDEGATE deprecated the proceedings which had characterised the debates of the past few days. He de fended the Chancellor of the Exchequer for using the strong terms of reprobation with respect to a company which de served the term of fraudulent. The house had nosy spent two days in attacking a member of the Government because in former years he had had the indiscretion to consort with a person with respect to whom all must feel the same sen timents who abominated assassination. Some little forbear ance, however, should be shown to the hon. member for Halifax, seeing that on the other side of the house they had heard members session after session defending the brigands in Italy, and proclaiming them as patriots. It was now high time to forbear from such personalities, for certainly it was no part of the duty of an Opposition to interrupt the useful business of the country. Mr. D. GRIFFITH alluding to the fact that the hon. member for Halifax (Mr. Stansfeld) had voted in the ma jority, asked whether it was accordance with the rules of the house when a member was on his defence for him to vote at all. The SPEAKER said that such was the rule, but that in the case of the hon. member for Halifax it could not be termed a personal question. Mr, G. DENMAN was of opinion that the first explana tion given by the hon. member for Halifax had not been quite satisfactory, bat attributed that to his having been stopped when about to proceed further by cries of " No," which cries he (Mr. Denman) interpreted to be that hon, gentlemen felt that they were probably being made the instruments of inquiries which had been suggested by the desire of those who were acting as police spies for foreign countries, and who wished to obtain information about Signor Mazzini, and those in correspondence with him. He questioned its being reasonable or desirable, when this matter had been so fully discussed and decided by a majority, to deliberate on and discuss it again. The hon. and learned gentleman then proceeded to analyse the evi dence on which the collusion of Mazzini and the hon. mem ber for Halifax in the Greco affair had been asserted by the Procureur-G6ntlral, which consisted, he said, solely of a scrap of paper found on one of the conspirators, without date or anything to indicate that it had not been in the man's possession for five or six years. He denied that there was any evidence to show that Mazzini approved of assas sination, and expressed his admiration of the manliness with which the hon member for Halifax and the hon. mem ber for Leicester (Mr. P. A. Taylor) had defended the friend whom they considered incapable of approving such a crime. After some observations from Sir J. FERGUSSON, The subject was allowed to drop, and the motion for the adjournment of the house, on its rising, to Monday fortnight agreed to. THE WAR IN DENMARK, :From the limes Special Correspondent with the Danish Army.) DANISH HEADQUARTERS, SONDERBORG, March 11. We are cheered every day by the arrival of foreign visitors—occasional English tourists in quest of a sensation, and to-day we have even two of the Eng lish of Asia, two Japanese gentlemen, naval officers of rank, as I am told, who are making the tour of Europe to improve their minds and become ac quainted with the progress of civilisation in every branch, and who have been brought hither to see the practical uses of that art of killing which, not. withstanding all the efforts of peace societies, will always be held to be the noblest of human pursuits, and call forth the greatest efforts of the ingenuity of all ages and countries. I have seen these two in teresting wanderers, two little men with boxwood complexion and monkey faces, but courteous, intel ligent, bowing to and smirking at any one who ho nours them with a call, half choked by the smoke of a little parlour in the Holsteinisches Haus, and striving to keep up a conversation with the whole world, notwithstanding the grievous disadvantage of their knowing no language but their own, and having to rely on the aid of an interpreter they picked up in Holland, and who neither understands nor speaks anything but Dutch. With all this draw back, however, these wise men from the far East have already managed to see all the Danish outposts and bastions between breakfast and lunch, and are now off to visit the Rofe Krake, riding at anchor at about half a mile's distance in the Sound. The most interesting of all strangers, however,are the Swedish and Norwegian auxiliaries, chiefly land and sea officers, eager to evince their sympathy in be half of the Scandinavian nationality, by placing their swords, and giving their lives, if need be, in the service of Denmark. The authorities at head quarters, penetrated as they are with their sense of gratitude for this fine exhibition of brotherly devo tion, are very much at a loss how to turn these natural allies to any practical use, or, indeed, how to dispose of them. They are all officers of high rank, officers and gentlemen ; must be treated as honoured guests, must be supplied with good quar ters, bed and board—all conveniences not easily to be come by here on any terms; must be mounted on good horses, and taken the whole round of the sights of the camp ; yet they bring to the Danish cause nothing whatever besides their epaulettes and their good swords. It is not a score or two of majors and colonels that Denmark is in need of. Indeed, any officer above the rank of a lieutenant can be put to no immediate use, ignorant as he must needs be of the peculiarities of the drill, of the discipline, and, to some extent, also of the language of the soldiers he would have under his orders. It is not officers, but soldiers, that Sweden should send, and these not by scores or hundreds, but by many more thousands than the whole great Scandinavian peninsula can afford. The time was when not only Sweden, but many other European Powers, by merely lifting up a little finger, could not only have saved Denmark, but also have averted the evils of a war, of which we have seen the com mencement, but cannot easily foresee the end. " Had the fleet of any great maritime nation made its appearance in Kiel harbour only two months ago, or had it cruised before the mouths of the Eibe or the Oder," the Danes say, " it is very question. able whether the Austro•Prussians would even have dreamt of venturing across the Eider; and had 20,000 or 25,000 men joined the little army muster ing behind the bastions of the Dannewerk, those who crossed that old frontier of the - Roman or German empire,' might have been glad to retrace their steps, foiled and broken before that very formidable barrier." Twenty - five thousand men, or even twice that number, would not now enable the Danes to take the field with any great hope of regaining their ground against the terrific odds that United Germany has it always in her power to concentrate against them. To resume the offensive in the Cimbrian peninsula would be the work of a first-rate power only, and the sympathy of the Swedes, were it even to take the shape of the largest contingent, would produce no general and permanent effect. As the Danes have nothing of moment to expect from the S wedes they have greatly abated in their enthusiasm for these their natural auxiliaries, and the dreams of the so-called Scandi navian party have been in a great measure dispelled by the chilling reality. Indeed, although many of the highest classes in both countries se battent lee * *nes pour se dormer de l'enthousiasme, or, in other words, rave a great deal about this instinct of union of the people of the three Northern kingdoms, there seems to be but little attractive tendency in the masses, and little love lost between them. The tradi tions of mutual wrongs and misdeeds, the remem brance of atrocious acts of tyranny exercised by Denmark in Sweden, and the turns of bad neigh bourhood of Sweden towards Denmark, are still green in the memory of the lowest ranks of either country ; and deep-rooted prejudices, illiberal anti pathies—those ill feelings which are apt to be par ticularly envenomed by too close a neighbourhood and by ties of kindred, would raise, as it seems to me, very strong obstacles in the way of the mach cherished scheme of a great Scandinavian empire. Anyhow, in the present straits of Denmark, it is felt that very little efficient aid is to be hoped from Sweden, even i❑ the opinion of those who give her credit for the strongest inclination to lend it if it were in her power, even of those who raise to the skies the high spirit of her chivalrous King, and who are so sure that both Charles XV. and the whole of his people would be but too ready to shed the last drop of their blood for the Danes, were they not hindered by a selfish Conservative party at home, and by the trammels of a cold-hearted diplo macy abroad. Nor is the reliance of the Danes on those mighty Powers who really could bring relief any longer very firm or sanguine. As they suppose that Sweden is held in check by France, so do they believe that England also is hampered in her movements by her suspicions of France. Their fate and the fate of the world, they think, hangs on the good pleasure of that silent, unfathomable potentate who is so slow in making up his mind, and so quick in changing it ; and unless God so takes pity on them as to throw discord into the councils of their German enemies and to array them one against another, and make either or both the easy prey of France, they feel that further resistance, however necessary to their honour, will hardly be conducive to their interests; that they are not only doomed ultimately to fall, but also to be utterly ruined and beggared in their fall. The feeling of isolation, of the desertion of their cause by all the mighty of the earth, the consciousness of their appal. ling inferiority of numbers, begic, I think, to exercise their depressing influence even upon the common sol diers of this brave, patient, but tried Danish army. Inaction, or at least dreary and plodding and, to all appearance, purposeless work, wears out a soldier's spirits more than any amount of toil and danger encountered in active warfare. The Danish soldiers are submissive, even tempered, even cheerful in their own quiet way; they trudge out every morn ing up to their knees in mud, without drum or trumpet, with no other music than an occasional snatch of their own martial airs sung in chorus; they come back at night drenched, fagged, listless, like men who will do their duty at any cost, but who find that duty and its uneht.nging rounds, and its dreary continuance—and life itself—a burden. Something occurred to-day to diversify the dull- ness of this uneventful existence. Two or three regiments were mustered together on the high grounds near Dybbol Mill to witness the distribution of medals and crosses awarded to some of the men and officers of the 3d and 18th Regiments, and of an artillery company, who distinguished themselves at the affair of Missunde. The weather was unpropi tious. It always is in this luckless climate. The people will have it that it is more unpleasant this year than it ever was within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. But I have been accustomed to remarks of this kind in all countries and at all sea. sons, whenever the elements are at all out of order, and have learnt to distrust the memory of that same " oldest inhabitant." The weather was unpropi tious, as I was saying ; the rain came down in pelt ing showers, driven by a gusty wind into our Bees, and the land, upon which the sun's face has not • smiled for a fortnight,was one great sea of unfathom able mud. The spot, however, was well chosen. The Dybbol windmill is the centre of the great Dybbol position. Towards the west the view is everywhere bounded by bastions bristling with cannon. But on the north, south, and east it extends widely over the Sound, the open sea, theVemmingbund, the mean but not unpicturesque town of Sonderborg, a very D atch toy village, and almost the whole isle of Alsen, a wavy surface of brown fields, dotted here and there by a few white streaks, the remnants of wan ing snow-drifts, with large tracks of dark forest mantling the highest summits, and sloping down with a graceful sweep to the water's edge. The troops, drawn up in long lines in the uneven crest of the Dybbol eminence, presented a goodly sight, the men all wrapped in their great high-collared overcoats, with their rich sandy hair reaching far drawn beyond the nape of their necks (an unsol dierly habit, from which Scandinavian vanity is not weaned), with their air of usual earnestness and patient resignation, enlivened for the occasion by the expectation of the ceremony they had been brought to attend. Presently, General Gerlach, the Commander-in- Chief, rode up at the head of a numerous, prancing staff—our only band struck up a few notes, blown by the high wind into empty space, and the Gene ral, after equally wasting in their inaudible words, proceeded to the business of the day. Each of the candidates for distinction stepped up to him at the head of the company to which he belonged, and which was made to share in a certain manner the honour bestowed upon the individual, and the " bauble" was in all cases accompanied by kind and affable words. The troops, in the end, defiled before their chief ; there were livelier strains of music, loud hurrahs, a chorus of the Tappre Land-soldat, and four men went back to town, their hearts beating under the dear Dannebrog, and their comrades roused to emulation of their deeds by the hope of a reward which, as it would seem, Denmark is too wise to cheapen by too lavish a bestowal of it. ALSENS, ISLAND OF FUNEN, March 12. I have fairly turned my back on Sonderborg, and am on my way to Fredericia in the hope of more strring times and a more interesting situation. When I left the isle of Alsen this morning I had reason to feel sure that the Prussians could not and would not attempt any forward movement for at least a fortnight to come. Should I find the Austrians in Jutland equally anxious to " look be fore they leap," I think I should leave the war in Denmark to find out such solution as it best could, in sheer despair of being able to interest Eaglitt readers with a perpetual reiteration of " Nothing going on I nothing to note !" THE DANISH QUESTION. Mr. B. OSBORNE gave notice that on Tuesday, the 19th April, he should draw the attention of the house to the effects of our foreign policy in Denmark and the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, and should move that it is buth unjust and inexpedient to insist upon the provisions of the Treaty of London of 1862, so far as they relato to the order of succession in the duchies, as a basis for the settle ment of the Deno •German conflict. SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS. Mr. SOAMES gave notice that on Friday, the 22d of April, he should move for leave to bring in a bill for the re striction of the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday. THE GOVERNMENT ANNUITIES BILL. In reply to Sir M. FARQUIIA.R, Mr. M. GIBSON stated that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer was quite willing to refer the Government Annui ties Bill to a select committee, provided the reference was on the clauses, and not on the whole subject, as proposed by the hon. baronet. Mr. HUNT asked if the reference , would include the financial alterations on which the bill was based ? Mr. M. GIBSUN was understood to say that it should be on the bill as it stood, THE lONIAN ISLANDS. Oa the the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. GREGORY (in a house consisting of 13 members) called attention to the demolition of the fortifications of Corfu and the noutralis&tion of the lonian Islands, and moved an address for papers. Captain JERVIS seconded the motion. Mr. SMOLLETT protested against the proceedings which the Government had taken in reference to the cession of the lonian Islands, and said that one of the worst things they could have done was to allow a young and ineape• rienced prince, who, according to his own admission, was incapable of government; to be placed at the head of such a turbulent, intriguing, and licentious population. _ Mr. LAYARD said the surrender of the islands had been made in perfect good faith and loyalty on the part of her Majesty's Government. He entered at considerable length into the circumstances which had led to the cession, and justified the destruction of the fortifications as an act of policy necessary to the maintenance of our posi tion in the Mediterranean. He expressed a hope that in the course of a very short time the people of Greece would discontinue the system of agitation in which they had so long indulged, and adopt a policy more calcu lated to promote their real interests. The King of Greece and his Ministers ware perfectly aware trom the first that the destruction of the fortresses was intended to be effected under the treaty for the surrender of the islands, He had no objection to give the papers. Captain JERVIS asked whether any stops had been taken to protect the interests of British subjects who had held office in the islands, and whose appointments neces sarily ceased with the cession. Mr. C. FORTESCUE said that the pensions already earned would be punctually paid by the Greek Government to the English Consul at Corfu, and the compensations for loss of office to our Minister at Athens. Mr. S. FITZGERALD said this was another instance in which the Government had committed a mistake in their foreign policy. They had meddled unnecessarily, and had done no good to those in whose behalf they had interfered. 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Earl Russell, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Fot eign Affairs, has received the following de spatch from his Excellency Lord Bloomfield, G.C.8., her Majesty's Ambassador at Vienna, forwarding a copy and translation of the regulations issued by the Austrian Go vernment, with regard to the capture and detention of enemy's and suspected ships, in consequence of the hosti lities between Denmark and the German Powers : Vienna, March 10, 18G4. - - My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose herewith, in copy and translation, an Imperial Decree relative to the stoppage, by Austrian men-ot•war, of ships belonging to the enemy or of a suspicious character.— I have, &c., BLOOMFIELD. Right Hon. Earl Russell, K.G., &c. (Translation.) Order of the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Com merce, War, and Marine, of the 3d March, 1864, relative to the capture of hostile and suspected vessels by Austrian ships of war, in consequence of the hostilities ordered by the Danish Government against Austrian and Prussian merchant ships, and against the merchant ships of the other German Federal States. Sec. 1. The capture of hostile and suspected vessels, in conformity with the first paragraph of the Declaration dated at Paris, the 16th April, 1856, which prohibits privateerirg (aeichegesotzblatt of the year 1856, No. 69), shall be made by ships of the Imperial Navy exclusively, and the corn, menders of these ships are bound to capture the vessels hereunder designated;— a. Ships belonging to the hostile States or to the sub jects thereof. b. Ships whose neutrality is not properly legalized (see. 4) or which appear to be suspicious, according to the pro visions of this order. Sec. 2, Ships belonging to neutral powers, or to the sub jects thereof. to whomsoever the cargoes may belong, may not be captured, provided that a. The papers relative to the ship and cargo be in order ; b. The ship be not laden with contraband of war intended for the enemy, or c. Be not otherwise subject to capture according to the provisions of the foregoing paragraph. Sec. 3. No ship shall be detained or captured in neutral waters. Sec. 4. The neutrality of a ship is proved by the papers which are prescribed as necessary to legitimize its nationa lity by the laws of the country of the ship in question. Sec. 6. The following are be stopped as suspicious, and c ptured for investigation . a. Ships which have two sets of papers, or papers pro bably false; b. Ships which have no papers, or which are ascertained to have thrown them overboard, or otherwise destroyed their papers, especially when this has taken place atter the cruiser was in sight. c. Ships which do not bring to when summoned by the cruiser, or which resist the search into holds or lockers, in which it may be presumed that contraband of war or papers may be concealed. Sec. 6. The following are to be regarded as good prizes : a. Ships belonging to the hostile State or to hostile sub jects, as also enemies property on board such ships. Neut ral property on board enemies' ships, which is not contra band of war, according to the fourth paragraph of the abovementioned declaration, dated at Paris, the 16th April, 1856, cannot be regarded as good prize. b. Neutral ships, the whole of whose cargo consists of contraband of war (compare secs. 2 and 7). If only part of the cargo be contraband the master of the ship may himself avoid capture if he, of his own accord, discharges the con traband on the spot, or in the nearest port. After the land ing has been effected the ship may proceed with the re mainder of her cargo. The contraband of war is to be regarded as good prize. c. Ships which forcibly resist detention. d. Austrian ships which have been taken by the enemy, and retaken from them, unless these can be considered as Reprize. IN Ships captured as suspicious (sec. 5), when the sus picion to which they are subject is not cleared up. Sec, 7. The following articles aro declared to be contra band of war, but only when they are intended for enemies' ports :—Cannons, mortars, swivel-guns, all sorts of wea pons, bonfes, grenades, balls, percussion caps, slow match, gunpowder, saltpetre, brimstone, cuirasses, articles of ar mour, saddles and bridles, and in general all articles which can be applied immediately to the uses of war, with the ex ception of a supply required for the defence of the crew and ship, and a,:!equate for such purpose. Sec. 8. On m „ tti, 7 a merchant ship which is not sailing under convoy, the comi zander of the cruizer shall summon the same, and require the master of the ship to com e on board with the ship's pa p ers . It' there be then no reason able objection he shall not prevent the ship from continuing her voyage. Bat if the commander Of the cruiser finds grounds for reasonable suspicion of any circumstance or fraudulent proceeding, he is to send an officer to examine more closely into circumstances. In this examie:ation the detaining party is not to open or break any closed rooms, casks, chests, cupboards, closets, cases, or other receptatlles, nor shall ho arbitrarily examine into the part of the cargo; ; which lies loose in the ship. But if a suspicion exists as to any concealed contraband of war, or compromising papers, the examining officer shall cause the master to open the suspected rooms or places of concealment. Any officer who may offend against these provisions shall incur responsibility for the same. Sec. 9. Neutral merchant ships, sailing under the convoy of ships of war of a neutral power, are not liable to search. In these cases it is sufficient that the chief of the convoy should declare the papers of the convoyed ships to be in order, and that they have no contraband on board. Sec. 10. The captor on his own eesponsibilty, shall not land, or sell, or exchange, or in way move or cause to be lost any part of the cargo of a captured ship. lie is on the contrary, in concert with the master or pilot of lie captured ship to place the whole cargo, so far as possible, under seal and lock. The ship's papers are to be put by the cale!or into an envelope, which shall be sealed with his official seal, and with the seal of the captured ship. The ship shall then,witn her cargo unopened (unless the master of the ship consents to its being opened with a view to its pi eservation), be taken to an Austrian port, or until it is possible to re move it to such a port, to the nearest place where the cap• tured ship can be taken into military custody. The ship is not to be taken to other places, melees tempest, weather, want of provision, hostile pursuit, or other maritime exi gency shall make it necessary. Even in this case, the cap tor must, as soon as circumstances permit, take or send the ship, with her cargo unbroken, to the nearest port where there is a competent prize court. Sec. 11. But when the cargo consists of merchandise easily spoilt, or when the ship cannot continue her voyage owing to damage, the captors shall be allowed, on their own responsibility, or with the assent of the master, to take such steps as may be most advantageous to the ship and cargo. Sec. 12. As soon as the captor reaches an Austrian port with the captured ship he is to report the same without delay to the Prize Court appointed for investigating and adjudicat ing, in order that it may institute the proper proceedings to exercise its functions. This announcement is to be made in the same way if the captured ship is brought to another port, where there is a competent prize court. Sec. 13. The commander who shall act in contravention of the above provisions made for the security of neutral shipping, or who shall abuse his power to the injury of the same, shall be made responsible, and may in addition to this, be called upon to make comeensation for damage ille gally caused. Sec. 14. The crew of a captured ship shall be maintained and supported at the expense of the Imperial Treasury until the final judgment be given in the matter. But if the ship master lodges an appeal against the sentence pronounced in the first instance, he shall give due security f,r the amount of the costs which he may be called upon to prey in the event of the loss of his suit in a higher court. Sec. 15. The crew of a captured and condemned ship is to be given up to the local authority, and the hostile subjects found among them are to be treated as prisoners of war• The subjects of friendly and neutral powers ale to be given over to their respective Consuls for further disposal. Sec. 16. A copy of this Order shall always bo kept on board every imperial et uiser. REctinE RG nz p. BURGER fit p. REIN on p. Ritter v. FRANCK m.p F.M.L. KALCHBERG 2n.p. For the Royal and Imperial Department of Commerce. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIV ERP OL—FRIDAY , There was a limited attendance of the town and vendscu trade to-day, and wheat met a moderate cousumpti mend at last week's prices. Flour neglected , and droop. ing. Oats in little demand, and prices as before. EgYr tian beans steady, but not active, at full rates. There.was little doing in Indian corn, and quotation& not raatcrallY altered, STAMFORD—FRIDAY. White wheat, 42s to 44s ; red, 37s to 41s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, 33s to 355; grinding, 29s to 32s pez qt. Oats, 168 to 22s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 408 to Pe r qr. ; now, 34s to 36g. LINCOLN—FRIDAY. White wheat new, 41s to 44s Barley, grinding.. 293 to 3 03 Red do. 34s to 40s Oats, old, .. 23s to 26 3 Old white —s to —3 New_do Ws to Vs Rod do.. —s to —s 1 Beans.. 40 s to Vs Barley, malting...32s to Hs ) Beans, new.. 343 to 363 WAKEFIELD—FRIDAX. A moderate show of wheat to-day, and factors generally hold firmly at the prices of Friday last, but millers buy' sparingly, and only a small business was done. 13arley' again met a limited sale, and was in many cases is cheaper: Other articles maintained former prices, but the demaaa was dull, Averages for the week : Wheat 2,000 qrs., at 4os 91 Rye — —s Od 8ar1ey......... 459 Beans Peas .... 70 Oats C ORK—FRID AY. The following were the quotations this morning :--rtea wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10d ; white, 8 s Od to Os 8 d , barley, 55 6d to 8s Od ; oats, 4s 10d to Gs 2d ; black do., 4 ,4 d to 55 31. BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. There has been more business doing in the raw sugar market this week, and several parcels have changed hands at full prices. Refined goods sell steadily, but not la quantify. No sales to report in rum. COAL A 1 IRKET. flues of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. s. d. - Buddle'sWest Hartley 15 9 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ....15 North Pelton Gas .13 3 Wylam 17 0 Eden Main 17 3 l'antield Moor 14 6 Cowpen Hartley 15 9 i.ambert's West Hart- 0 , d. ley l5 6 Hartlepool W. Hartleyls 0 Hastings Hartley l5 9 Waldridge Gas . . Walls End. Stewart's 18 6 East Hartlepool lB 9 Caradoo l7 9 Ships at market Walls End. Hartlepool ..1.3 6 South Hetton 19 g Kelloe ..17 ' .. South Kolloe lB 0 Heugh Hall 18 6 Hetton l9 Tunstall .... Brsddyll's Hetton 17 ° Riddell..... 16 0 Gosforth l6 Framwellgate ..16 u„ South Hart1ep001......17 ° Haswell Wharncliffe l6 0 , 3 Cassop l7 ' a Trimdon liutlepool„ .18 u )t, 82; sold, 64. RAILWAY INTEI LIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1864. 1863. Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 Belfast and County Down 49 49 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 Bristol and Exeter l2lk 121 t Caledonian Cockermouth & Workington 4 8t Cork and Bandon 2O 20 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l Cork and Youghal . 3.2 t 31 Cornwall 65: 531 Deeside l7 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll 48 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691 1691 Furness, &c 5O 5 i Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern 353 351 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 51t.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 373} 329 Great Western 1056.5 10561 Inverness & Aberdeen June 864 86: Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 Irish North-Western 145 Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 Limerick and Ennis..... 24 1864. 18 61 4 ‘. 1,745 1. 90. 703 6 , 19 1,572 1, 407 5,303 5, 18 Z 16,541 16,22 6 Limerick and Foynes 261 Llanelly 46/ London & North-Western London and Blackwall sf London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261 London, Chatham, & Dover 72 Do. Metropolitan Extension 10. Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 42 Man.,Shellield, & Lincolnsh 239 i Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham Of Ilaryport and Carlisle Metropolitan Midland (incl. N. -Western) 641 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind Monkland 7l Monmouthsh. Pail. & Canal 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 Oswestry and Newton.... 5O Ithymney l9i St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset OO South Devon South-Eastern 306 Taff Vale 67 Ulster Vale of Clwyd Vale of Neatli 32} Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 27i W.Hartlepool Il arbr. & Rail 52 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 Whitehaven Junction l3 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 Austrian B2B Belgian Eastern Junction 26 Bombay, Baroda, & t en. India 185 Buffalo and Lake Huron tol Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish Eastern Bengal Eastern of France 1135 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Indian Peninsula 5 3 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madras 417 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650 Northern of Canada Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5 Paris and Orleans 1614 Pernambuco ..... 77i Royal Danish 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B South Austrian Southern of France 770 Victorian 196 Welland ..••.. .. • • 25 'West Flanders 75 W. and N.W. of France 145 3951 24f 26 46/ 11791 6 7 441 250. 410 i 10791 9 251 138 39i 75 30(1 1051 481 1713 1494 1968 680 196 328 31 ! 115 I t7 t 404 3 , ) 1,152 1. 7 4 242 1,239 le' 1,347 1. 0 , 1, ; 208 , 1,791 2 . 171 7,524 7.2 0% ; 2,952 2 . 65 Z 4 8,593 6.41,','; 27,567 27. 0, ' 29.774 24, 5 J' 1,633 1. 6 4 990 5 ' 6,817 7.191 65,211 6 3 . 43 ; ; 905 853 948 1,6;7 I, M, 9 i 36,393 3 4 ew; 144 F l '' 133 A• 584 51 ` r 59,786 80. 661 1,626 01; 16,740 2 2, 0,3 8 4 ' 14,035 16, 18 , 3,7&0 3 12 ,' 930 1161,, 1,960 8 3 19 0 3 1 1 2 4 11! 42,652 39. 1 1 4,690 1.535 1. 3 ' 1 ; 2,505 2.25„' - 5 ),o'4 9136 39,251 37.1 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. kusiralia and Mauritius, via Southampton • vrAr• 4, via Marseilles .. Mar. 5, Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet April Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Mar. 7 0 , China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Mar• via Marseilles Mar. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Mar. 13 V• ' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampt on Mar' ,i via Marseilles Mar. ,•,, India (Bombay), via Southampton Mar. 1 „` ) ., via Marseilles Mar. Portugal.... Mar. April l5 3 : -- via 3lalta, Egypt, and Men, via Southampton via Marseilles• Newfoundland ..Mar' 1 1 6 116. Oporto and Vigo . . U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Mar. by U.S. packet.... il. by Canadian packet. Mar. 10, W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. Mar. i Bahamas, via New York Mar. 1, Niexico. . All parts of West Indies, in c luding Chili, Peru, 1 m a n 5° California. and British Columbia.. , Births. k BIDV'ELL.—On the 14th inst., at 14, Upper Brook-8 r eef' the Lady Selina Bidwell, of a daughter. CoLvILL.—On the 15th inst , Bodmin, Mrs, 11 C°' of a son. MAN— -o On the 18th inst., at Clapham, the wife of -t r- Man, Esq., of a son. h i c, TENNANT.—On the 17th inst., at Li s c ar d-vale, Ch es ' r the wifd of James M. Tennant, Esq., of a daughte r ' Marriages. 10 13° TURNER—FOSTER.—On the 17th inst. at at Fleetwonuf o va Turner, Eiq , of Sandywood House, Manchester. se e v iv , son of J. A. Turner, Esq., M.P., to Mary, only ou r ing daughter of Goo Foster, Esq., of ileetwoo 1. f e WEBS—litonEnTs.---On the 17th inst., at Saint 11 1, 3 , r ? r bb: Islington, William, fourth son of Thomas Land ":f lialberton, Devon, to Mary Ann, eldest daugnte r - Roberts, Etq., Dulwich. Deaths. f IDG BRACEBRIDGE —On the 18th if:3st BARNS.—On the 1 7th inst 3 at Tiverton, Mary, ralict °- late George Barne, DI.; aged 8 ,, at 6, Barnsb ur P c7. 111 ag' Islington, Mr. Philippa Btaceridge r BrOta le CODD.—On the s 17th ins t i ., at Hartland Cottage/ common, Mr, Harry Codd, aged 28. John JACOB.—On the i7th inst , at Boulogne.aur•Mer, Jacob, Esq., of Holyhead, aged 36. - fsd.t KING.—On the 18th inst., at Islington, Gilbert liint;•,,, " ii.s M.D., inspector -General of Hospitals and Fleets, " aged 73. Alillerf MILLER.—On the 16th iast., at Overton, Thomas-- Esq , aged 86. sV q' f SnELronn.—On the 17th inst., Leonard Sh elfordi of the Middle Temple, aged 69. __.....!?°-:: NNW - London: Prinz,od and Prbtished by vVILLIANIAND;O. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SuN Offic e , ,4y O t Strand, :n the Precinct of t he 3avoy, in the Oh -1413161e0ex.7_,-Satlirclay, March 19, 16di. •00 4